- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing to do is to find the type of play to make Italy win the World Cup, and maybe Baggio be the best player.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the dream of all the children of the world to play in the World Cup final.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt!
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?
- Nov 07, 2020
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that technological tools that filmmakers use to tell stories, in a perfect world, need to become invisible. When it's brand new and it's never been seen before and you're birthing this stuff, it's very much on people's minds.
- Bank
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020